library day in the life: Monday

AM

• Back in the library after a week at the Educause Learning Technology Leadership Program (which was fab, by the way). Mostly a whole lot of e-mail, calendar maintenance, accepting meeting requests, &c. to start the day.
• Update the to-do list, sigh, attempt to keep spirits up.
• Log into problem reports database (where staff report issues related to the website, library resources, etc.) and assign myself to outstanding issues. Knock off several web page updates and general CMS maintenance as a result.
• Set up 3 wikis for various faculty and colleagues on the 2.0 Toolbox.
  

PM

• Lunch (homemade tabbouleh, boiled egg, fruit, yogurt. Nothing specifically library-related about lunch, but it was delicious and therefore, noteworthy).
• Work on an article proposal with a colleague. Fingers crossed it gets accepted!
• Set up another wiki for a colleague on the 2.0 Toolbox.
• Tweak some Drupal CSS for our intranet. CSS-tweaking on Drupal is never as quick & easy as it should be, alas.
• Cleanup metadata on 4 video files, upload them to iTunes U.
• Watch a video on the future of libraries (meh) and read an article on mobile usability (good).
• Begin draft of a usability report (based on testing I did a couple of weeks ago) for a new digital collections site/project that is underway.
• Update to-do list.
• Call it. 45-minute drive home.

Later PM

• Don my other library-related hat: LIS instructor.
• Post to course blog, read student posts, check delicious stream, do some marking.
• Update to-do list once again (clearly, I have a problem).
• Fire up the aggregator & read some feeds.
• Turn attention to non-Libraryish matters for the rest of the evening.

Hey Amanda! I agree with your assessment of the future of libraries video… they do a lot of good stuff @ JISC but the video didn’t do much for me either … seems aimed more at those outside of libraryland.
Cheers, Cynthia

At what point did you sit around reading books?

I have to admit I have a similar problem with my to do list. We should form a support group. I’ll, um, add it to my to do list.

@Cynthia: yeah, I agree on JISC. My non-word assessment was a bit flip, I guess, but you’re right — clearly their audience was not libraryfolk.

@Tom: I know, right? they had better not take away sensible shoes from me because that was the *only other reason* I joined this profession.

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